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Originally Posted by MrWookie
Oh, so you're painfully short on facts, but still able to throw some hot fire at people who, in light of a recent killings of a black people by cops, including multiple events where the police accounts are directly contradicted by other evidence, are skeptical of the police here?
I'll tell you at this point I'm skeptical of both sides. My observation is people are so focused on the race issue when these things occur it largely drowns out someone died. Is anyone aware that one of the kids in spank's sensational poster who was shot in the back had just bought a stolen hand gun? Does that even matter? Does not seem so, seems the color of the kid's skin is the important thing.
Do not get me wrong, I'm all for discussing race and racism in our society but it seems when this stuff happens all that's talked about is the racial aspect. I want to know why cops are quick to shoot in the first place and yes, I know minorities are disproportionately affected/effected by this phenomenon. But again, whats discussed is not the quick to shoot but rather the racial disparity.
My guess there is a probably multiple influences involved in several of these instances from race, to poor training, to criminal behavior (on both sides), to poor psych evaluations, etc, etc. It seems the police killing someone gets your attention when its a black person is involved and it'd be hard pressed for me to believe based on your posting history that you actually care about the cops killing people part while you and others only want to point out racial association/racism which is important but its all you talk about. You'd be hard pressed to prove that race was the primary factor in most of these shootings, yet it is what gets the publicity. Training, evaluations, civil review board, stuff like that hardly ever gets discussed and when it does, its only briefly, have to hit the race angle again.
That goes for the other side too, they make all these attempts to show how race was not an issue, when its clear race is an issue although it varies on how relevant based on the circumstances.
Yeah, I'm skeptical.
Last edited by braves2017; 04-21-2015 at 04:19 AM.